All 3 Uses of
deceit
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them).†
p. 124.9deceit = act of lying to or misleading someone
- He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.†
p. 127.4
- He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.†
p. 128.1 *
Definition:
the act of lying to or misleading someone